The Plancherel formula for countable groups

DOI10.1016/J.INDAG.2021.01.002MaRDI QIDQ6348238arXivFDO

Authors Bachir Bekka

Publication date 2 September 2020

Published in arXiv

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/J.INDAG.2021.01.002

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Unitary representations of locally compact groups (22D10) (C^*)-algebras and (W^*)-algebras in relation to group representations (22D25) Fourier and Fourier-Stieltjes transforms on nonabelian groups and on semigroups, etc. (43A30) Representations of groups, semigroups, etc. (aspects of abstract harmonic analysis) (43A65) General theory of von Neumann algebras (46L10)

arXiv classification

math.GRmath.OA

Abstract: We discuss a Plancherel formula for countable groups, which provides a canonical decomposition of the regular representation of such a group $Gamma$ into a direct integral of factor representations. Our main result gives a precise description of this decomposition in terms of the Plancherel formula of the FC-center $Gamm{a}_{mfc}$ of $Gamma$ (that is, the normal sugbroup of $Gamma$ consisting of elements with a finite conjugacy class); this description involves the action of an appropriate totally disconnected compact group of automorphisms of $Gamm{a}_{mfc}$. As an application, we determine the Plancherel formula for linear groups. In an appendix, we use the Plancherel formula to provide a unified proof for Thoma's and Kaniuth's theorems which respectively characterize countable groups which are of type I and those whose regular representation is of type II.

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